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Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 2:41 a.m.

In this episode of Check It/Round Table Onna discusses the Emma BBC miniseries by Andrew Davies and why the height of Mr. Knightly verses Emma made her upset and led to a Shrek cake.  Onna observes how this version of Emma, Emma is shown in her raw naivety but the walking style was not a fit for her status but still seems overall a better fit for Emma as Romola Gerai gives a more honest version of Emma than Gwyneth Paltrow's version of Emma with a veneer of perfection that just doesn't seem as real.  Onna considers how Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Gerai get into a bickering fit and how Jonny Lee Miller's character ends up speechless because there really are no words for Emma's behavior and how when Mr. Knightly swings over his grounds and realizes he is there and present in that moment.  Onna segues into how this series considers how kids really do add to life in ways that are seriously so stupendous and amazing in how they think and see the world as they are younger and are "a weird adult" as the J Drama, A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love, shows because often when people pass their 20's, they quit being curious, but some of us keep being curious, and that is what makes them awesome Weird Adults.  Onna continues on with how there are so many people in this world need a home and it is so often to provide that for some people if you have that opportunity to impact people for the better and to grow yourself in the process and the process of finding balance.  Onna considers how having your own kids is not a checklist of duty, but a really cool thing in your life, and a really cool thing in other peoples' lives as you bring the care and love together between you and the family you have.  Onna brings these thoughts back to this version of Emma as Emma and Mr. Knightley consider their entire family as they enhance their family as a cohesive whole and avoid chicken thieves in the process.  Onna concludes with a shout out to Martin Phipps, the godson of Benjamin Britten, and his amazing talent and his awesome score for this series as well several other Austen works done for the screen by Andrew Davies and what makes Emma irredeemable and why this is why Emma is Onna's least favorite heroine of Jane Austen's novels because instead of legitimizing Miss Bates, she humiliates her.  It's all here.  It's all real.  

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